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One lucky reader stands the chance of winning a spectacular day trip for two aboard Ceres Rail, plus vouchers for the steampunk-themed Elgin Railway Market.
Few things are more covetable than a steam-train ride through the countryside… And with the Ceres Steam Trains (namely Jessica, Bailey and Red Devil), you get the full train experience, complete with all the travelling comforts.
This family-friendly ride – which runs every second weekend on a Saturday – departs from the Royal Cape Yacht Club near the V&A Waterfront at 8am, and takes you through the Witzenberg region, past vineyards, olive groves, majestic mountains and fields of wheat and canola to the fruitful Ceres Valley.
Once on your way, you'll enjoy comfortable lounge cars, hot beverages and savoury snacks in the Dining Car, or beer, bubbly, wine and soft drinks in the Bar Car, before arriving at your final destination: the steampunk-themed Elgin Railway Market, where a wonderful array of stalls and a magical atmosphere await.
Does this sound like the stuff of an Agatha Christie murder mystery? It need not be – we're giving away a pair of tickets for the Ceres Steam Train, that includes a three-and-a-half-hour pitstop at the Elgin Railway Market plus vouchers valued at R4 500!
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If you win this fabulous prize, your vouchers will include:
- Shelley Taylor Designs for beautiful jewellery
- SoVinhos for wine tastings
- JAC Crafts for rustic, upcycled wooden wineracks
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- L-Gin Craft Gin for apple and blueberry gin cocktails
- J&J Sushi for family-sized sushi platters
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- Chilli Lingo Hot Sauce Company for a fiery sauce
- Bellicious Chocolate for a brownie and handmade marshmallows
- Ella's Elgin Farm Food for a wholesome farm-style vetkoek breakfast and pancakes
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All that's left to do – once your eating, drinking and shopping is complete – is to hop back onto the locomotive, as the valley streams past your window, and delivers you back to Cape Town at 5.30pm. But for now, simply enter below, and this amazing experience could be yours.
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The winner's name will be drawn on 25 September 2018, and the prize is redeemable for the trip on 29 September 2018. The total prize is valued at R6 000 (R1 500 for two Ceres Rail tickets, and R4 500 in vendor prizes) and includes a return trip aboard the Ceres Steam Train for two, plus a selection of vouchers from 13 vendors at the Elgin Railway Market.
This competition and its prizes are being offered by the Elgin Railway Market and the Ceres Railway Company, which is solely responsible for ensuring that the winner receives his/her prize. The Inside Guide shall not be liable to entrants of this competition for any prizes, loss or damage whatsoever and howsoever arising from the running, or otherwise, of this competition. The winner will be notified by email and should reply within 24 hours. Once we have received your email, we will put you in touch with the organisers to arrange your prize. Ts & Cs apply.
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|The NNIN/C at the University of Michigan will be hosting a presentation on "An Introduction to Materials Studio", which will be broadcast live as a web based seminar. Topic: An Introduction to Materials Studio Date: July 25, 2013 Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT. Presenter: Michael Doyle, PhD, Director of Product Marketing and Principal Scientist Accelrys. Abstract: Materials Studio® is the one of the world's most advanced client-server software system for advanced materials simulation and modeling. Materials Studio makes it easy to create and study molecular structures, lattices, surfaces, meso-scale structures and to exploiting stunning graphics capabilities to present your results. Materials Studio draws on well-validated and widely applied simulation methods including quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics, meso-scale modeling, analytical instrument simulation, and statistical correlations in to one easy-to-use modeling environment. These techniques are supported by structure-building and visualization capabilities and tools to analyze and present scientific data. This course will cover the basics of how to build structures within the materials studio environment, perform initial calculations, submit batch jobs and move models and structures from the atomistic to quantum and meso-scale regimes. The following are some of the highlights that will be covered. • Managing projects using the Project Explorer. • Sketching simple molecules. • Sketching complex molecules such organometallics using the fragment sketcher. • Defining fragments and repeat units to build polymers. • Analyzing and adjusting geometrical properties such as torsions, angles and distances. • Using the symmetry tools for molecular and periodic systems. • Working with the different display style options. • Integration with publishing software. • Building crystals and surfaces. • Building layered structures and crystal interfaces. • Working with volumetric data – isosurfaces and slices.
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Saint Bernard
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 2, 2010 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Physical Characteristics
Breed Group:
The Saint Bernard is a member of the Working Group.
120-200 lb.
Male: 27.5 inches min.; female: 25 inches min.
The coat is white with red, red or brindle with white. White appears on noseband, collar, chest, feet, and tail tip.
The Saint Bernard can sport one of two types of dense coats. The short hair coat is smooth and tough. The long-medium length coat is rough and straight to slightly wavy.
The Saint Bernard wears an intelligent expression. This breed is loyal and willing to please.
Country of Origin:
This breed may have originated with the Roman Molossian dogs. Through Canine Evolution from 1660-1670, the breed developed. At St. Bernard Hospice in Switzerland, founded by Bernard of Menthon, monks noted this breed's talent for locating lost people in deep snow. This breed worked in search and rescue for three centuries. They also had roles guarding and drafting. The most famous Saint Bernard is Barrie, credited with saving 40 lives.
Named for Bernard of Menthon. St. Bernhardshund, Alpine Mastiff. Sacred Dog (historic).
This breed is gentle and patient, but can be stubborn. The affectionate Saint Bernard is calm and friendly to strangers and other pets.
Be sure to train this breed while they are small and easy to manage. Always socialize with other humans.
Allow daily exercise such as moderate walks and short runs. Activities in cold weather are also good. Never let the dog become overheated.
Owners must take into account the adult dog's tremendous size and weight. Problems can arise if the owner cannot control a misbehaving dog in public. Provide a safe environment with a fenced yard. Be aware that this breed may jump over or dig under a fence. Owners need to know the Saint Bernard does not tolerate heat well. Avoid keeping your pet in warm rooms or cars. Although this breed can be raised outside in temperate to cold weather, it should divide its time between house and yard. Keep this pet socialized with your family.
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Oregon running back LaMichael James is skipping his senior year and declaring himself eligible for the NFL draft.
James, a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2010, said Friday he has not hired an agent.
"I feel like I'm leaving with a bang," said James, less than a week after he helped the Ducks to a victory over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
A 5-foot-9, 195-pound All-American, James rushed for a school-record 1,805 yards this season despite missing two games with a dislocated right elbow. He led the nation with an average of 150.4 yards rushing per game.
James is Oregon's career leader in yards rushing with 5,082. He is the first Pac-12 player to have three straight 1,500-yard seasons.
In Oregon's 45-38 Rose Bowl victory over the Badgers, James rushed for 159 yards and a touchdown.
At a news conference Friday afternoon, James said he's been told he's likely a third-round pick. He hopes to improve his status with workouts.
James is one term away from completing a degree in General Social Science, or sociology. He may take the winter term off to train before returning to school in the spring to finish up.
He said he ultimately reached his decision on Thursday, which was difficult because of his close relationship with Oregon running backs coach Gary Campbell.
"He is a very special person and certainly will be remembered as one of the very best players ever to wear a uniform at the University of Oregon," coach Chip Kelly said in a statement released by the school. "I could not have asked any more from him and I am confident he will be a success at the next level."
Earlier this season, Stanford coach David Shaw raved about James.
"He's not a big guy, but he breaks tackles. He can stop and start. He's got some Reggie Bush characteristics at times," Shaw said. "And by all accounts, outside of playing us, I'd pull for him because he's a great kid. Everybody that I've ever had contact with who has had contact with this kid says he's a great kid."
James got off to a slow start this season with 54 yards rushing in the season-opening loss to LSU before he had 67 against Nevada, spurring talk that perhaps some weight he added in the offseason was slowing him down.
But then he reeled off three straight games with 200 or more yards.
James first grabbed attention as a redshirt freshman after running back LeGarrette Blount was suspended for punching a Boise State player after Oregon's 2009 season opener. James ran for a Pac-10 freshman-record 1,546 yards and was honored as the league's freshman of the year.
Last season he keyed the Ducks' super-fast spread offense to a 12-0 regular-season record and a berth in the BCS championship game. James declared he was returning to Oregon even before the loss to Auburn in the title game, saying he wanted to complete his education.
When the season was over, James led the NCAA in yards rushing with 1,731. He finished third in the Heisman vote behind winner Cam Newton of Auburn and Andrew Luck of Stanford.
James leaves Oregon with several school records, including most career touchdowns (58), most career 100-yard rushing games (26) and most career points (348). He has seven career 200-yard games.
He is the eighth Ducks player to leave school for the draft with eligibility remaining.
Oregon's LaMichael James going to NFL early
Oregon running back LaMichael James is skipping his senior year and declaring himself eligible for the NFL draft.


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Monthly Archives: February 2012
New report on youth and digital media
Recent Harvard study looks at the information-seeking behaviors of youth ages 18 and under, finding that context and demographics also play a critical role.
Using smartphones to boost healthy behavior against juvenile diabetes
Using a smartphone app to encourage blood glucose monitoring compliance in adolescents with diabetes that includes a points reward system redeemable in the iTunes store.
Scheduled HVAC repairs
Service to the Library's heating, cooling and air circulation systems will begin Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 at 9:00 p.m., and end Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 5:00 a.m. The building is closed during these hours, but this may initially affect heat and circulation in the morning.
NCBI Workshops
Today is the first in a two-day series of workshops emphasizing different sets of NCBI resources. Each session uses specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools under study and to demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks. Schedule Monday, February 27, 2012: 9:00-11:30AM — Sequences, Genomes and Maps 1:00-3:30PM — Proteins, Domains …Read More »
Evaluating information literacy training offered by medical libraries
Discussion of recently published article on information literacy instruction by medical libraries, and an example from our own library.
Free app for tracking blood glucose levels: MyTelcare Diabetes Pal
As noted on iMedicalApps, MyTelcare Diabetes Pal is a free app designed to help people with diabetes and their caregivers track, analyze and share blood glucose (BG), medication and food data both manually and automatically. Your data can be viewed in charts & graphs, and the app also offers a "Forum" feature, offering what appears …Read More »
Monday Lunch hour Seminars on Aging – 12noon to 1PM – March and April Schedule
Seminar series on aging continues, with topics including arts-based intervention in long term care, changing long-term care, challenges and priorities of aging issues in SLC, and more!
Carol Masheter -"Reaching for the Summits" – Seminar Series on Aging Issues – Monday – Feb. 27th noon -1:00 pm HSEB 2120
We hope you will join us on Monday to listen to the uplifting story of Dr. Carol Masheter (former faculty member at University of Utah – and has been with Utah Dept of Health) – who at the age of 65 has experienced great adevntures and continued to show both physical and mental toughness in …Read More »
Heartwise 9-1-1 Women's Heart Attack Seminar at Salt Lake Public Library
Dr. Lillian Khor will present a free heart health seminar at the Salt Lake City Library today, 2/23/12, at 6:30 p.m.
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To increase participation over previous years, I am offering (thanks to my own insanity) what I think is a pretty neat prize:
A DVD-R featuring more than 13,000 files from the 2004 season. I'm still gathering stuff from various CDRs, but what it will include is every single Red Sox story (or at least 99.9% of them) from the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, Springfield Republican, MLB.com, and many out-of-town papers; stories from the four main New York papers during every MFY series; photos from throughout the year, including many of the World Series parade; and a whole bunch of other off-beat stuff.To fill out the disc, I'm also including the last few months of the 2003 season (detailing all the Schilling and Slappy drama).
There are also more than a dozen video montages made by fans, guaranteed to bring tears of joy to your eyes; some of coolest footage is from the upper deck in St. Louis showing the final out of Game 4. Plus audio files of the WEEI broadcasts of ALCS Games 4-7 and all four World Series games.
Plus, there will be no tiebreaker this year. Everyone who comes closest to the Red Sox regular season record will win. (Is Franco still out there? He's won both the 2004 and 2005 contests!)
I'll accept emails until noon, April 2 (the day before Opening Day). Email me here.
Edit: Forgot something. Just for fun, also include where you think the Sox will finish. Something like: "1st, 2 GA NY" or "2nd, 4 GB Tor" or "5th, 33 GB TB".
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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Ready for the fight.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Shutdown showdown. President Obama is making it clear he's done compromising. No more short-term deals to keep the government running. He and John Boehner came out today with a pair of unscheduled dueling news conferences this afternoon. Their positions were clear. The president said he was done compromising and done making cuts. Boehner said the Democrats have to cut more, and by the way, he said, they have to agree to scratch Planned Parenthood funding and any action on climate change to boot. Clearly, the president believes the Republicans now will take the heat if the government goes dark.
Plus, to hear Republican budget chairman Paul Ryan tell it, his budget plan is a traveling medicine show—you know, a cure-all for all the country's ills, to pay off the national debt, to create millions of new jobs, to increase revenue without raising taxes, to cut unemployment down to just 4 percent, to save Medicare and Medicaid. What he doesn't say is what's on the label, really, that skull and bones, the death of Medicare. That's in his plan.
Also, Bachmann—or—Bachmann—I should know her name. Bachmann in, Huckabee out. Michele Bachmann has just hired Huckabee's top kick-out (ph) in Iowa. This is real. She could win Iowa, I think. And who knows, maybe she's got the wind at her back.
And we've got star power here on HARDBALL, as well, tonight. Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey is going to join us to push back against Republican efforts to slash funding for the arts. Why do they always want to close the show, the Republicans?
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with what happens when the Republican dream of cutting Medicare—actually, getting rid of Medicare, comes face-to-face with reality, older Americans who receive Medicare and like it. And by the way, they all vote.
Let's start with the showdown over the government shutdown right now -
we're joined right now by two MSNBC political analysts, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe. Glad to have you both on. Thanks for joining us.
Now, let's take a look at these dueling press conferences. Here's the president on what the American people want to see. Let's listen to the president. He's loaded for bear.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think what they're looking from me is the same thing they're looking from Speaker Boehner and Harry Reid and everybody else, and that is, is that we act like grown-ups. We've been willing to cut programs that we care deeply about, that are really important. But we recognize that given the fiscal situation that we're in, everybody's got to make some sacrifices, everybody's got to take a haircut.
MATTHEWS: And here's Speaker Boehner coming out one minute later, right after the president. Speaker Boehner—let's listen.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: We're not going to allow the Senate, nor the White House, to put us in a box where we have to make a choice between two bad options, cutting a bad deal this week in order to keep the government open or allow the government to shut down due to Senate inaction.
MATTHEWS: You know, I feel for the guy as a human being, Howard Fineman. I think he's got a lot of people behind him that are all yelling in different directions. Not only does he—
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: John Boehner?
MATTHEWS: Yes, Boehner, and he—and the president looks cool as a cucumber, like, I can't wait for this fight. Boehner says, Why do I have to have this job? I got the Tea Party people coming in one ear, the old bulls who just want to cut a deal on spending on the other side of me, the people that hate abortion, hate—
FINEMAN: Climate change.
MATTHEWS: -- birth control, climate change, every crazy—every goal in the right-wing in the medicine cabinet is reading to show up here.
FINEMAN: well, I think John Boehner is sympathetic with almost all of those people that you just mentioned. But he's also a practical politician. And as I understand it from talking to people on both sides, one of the things that the president—makes the president confident is that there's videotape. And the videotape is of the Tea Party people saying, Cut it or shut it.
FINEMAN: In other words, if there's a shutdown, the president's going to be able to say that the Republican leadership was forced into this by their Tea Party constituents—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: -- and they're going to show the videotape. It's always all about the videotape. And the videotape is going to be, you know, We can't wait for a shutdown—"we," meaning the Tea Party, can't wait for a shutdown.
MATTHEWS: Richard, it just seems like the president is in a happy-go-lucky mood. Now, I'm thinking about the box he came in this week, 8.8 percent unemployment, which ain't great, but it's going down, right? The Republican Party is sort of schizophrenic right now between its sort of regular Republicans we all grew up with, the suburban-type Republican who just wants to have a little less government, a little lower taxes, but that's all he wants or she wants, and these loony tunes out there that want to change the world in one Congress.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, they're competing for different groups of voters, OK? So the president in that clip mentioned all of his marks. There was being reasonable, being the grown-up—
MATTHEWS: Getting a haircut.
WOLFFE: -- going half, more than halfway, if you take the numbers at face value. So—and the other side are talking about this sort of congressional tactics. In the end, the debate for Republicans is what's harder, shutting down the government or taking on the Tea Party? And that's a completely different—
MATTHEWS: Why did Boehner give away his cards—
MATTHEWS: Why did Boehner admit—he said, There's some people in my caucus behind me here who would rather get rid of Planned Parenthood than balance the budget. He basically said they care about is this—and getting rid of anything that might regulate climate change—
FINEMAN: Well—
MATTHEWS: -- anything that might be vaguely liberal.
FINEMAN: OK. Well, I think it's the difference between somebody who sees things from the congressional Beltway perspective, which, ironically enough, is John Boehner. John Boehner has spent a lot of time in Congress trying to be the reasonable man within his caucus, you know, on the Hill. The president has a bigger audience with whom to try to be the reasonable man, namely the whole country.
So what you're hearing in Boehner's mind is what Richard says, is the legislative calculation. How do I deal with all these groups in my caucus? Whereas the president is saying, How do I do what I do best, which is being the most reasonable man in the whole country? That's how he won the election.
MATTHEWS: But also—
MATTHEWS: To make Howard's point, to deliver it again—you said it very well—the president says, I'm here for the people. They want us to do the job. They want us to create jobs. They want us to deal with lower gas prices. And we got to stop this diddling around about, basically, last year's budget.
WOLFFE: Right. And there are a couple pieces of tape that he's got, as well as the one Howard mentioned. One is what Boehner's aides told everyone at the start of the year, which is $50 billion or $60 billion of cuts will be just fine, thank you very much. So first of all, they go out and brief everyone that half the amount is fine, and then they up it. The other piece of tape is the fact that, you know, when it comes down to it, the riders are in there. That's—
MATTHEWS: Here he is—
MATTHEWS: Here is Speaker Boehner about the riders. Here he is—what they call these little things that says, Oh, by the way, no more funding for this, no more funding for that. Here he is. Let's listen.
BOEHNER: We will continue to insist that the policy riders passed in HR-1 are on the table. It's just as important to many of our members as the—as the spending cuts themselves.
MATTHEWS: I feel for the guy! It's just as important—
MATTHEWS: Even though you people think we're insane, it's just as important to my crazy closet back here.
FINEMAN: I'm old enough to remember when Bob Dole ended up running against Bill Clinton.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: There's a certain similarity here—
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: -- in the—not just with the tan, because Bob Dole liked to get the tan, but it was also—is that John Boehner says phrases like "policy riders."
FINEMAN: First of all, policy rider—what the heck is a policy rider?
MATTHEWS: Mark-up. That's a mark-up.
FINEMAN: We should realize that polls do show that people are going
to blame everybody in Washington if there's a shutdown. So the president -
MATTHEWS: Well, why is the president not loosey-goosey, debonair?
Why did he walk out there without a touch of sweat today?
FINEMAN: Well, for the reason—
MATTHEWS: And whereas this guy—and I really like Boehner as a person, I can tell I like him—he's on the verge of almost breaking out in tears.
FINEMAN: Well—
MATTHEWS: He's miserable in that situation.
FINEMAN: Because—first of all, as Richard was saying—about these policy riders—they don't belong in this discussion. And I think that the president knows that, and I think John Boehner—
MATTHEWS: Cultural earmarks!
FINEMAN: -- sort of knows it. Yes, Planned Parenthood, whatever, but especially climate change. You're not going to say you're going to re-litigate the climate debate in the middle of a, you know, possible shutdown of the government. It doesn't make any sense.
MATTHEWS: There's a radical element here. And I mean the radical—
I'll say it without any prejudice, radical. Basically, get rid of Obama's health care bill, which he spent two years fighting and the Democrats have spent 100 years trying to get to, basically, abolishing Medicare the way it was created back in the '60s, basically getting rid of it, getting rid of any funding for birth control, basically, no climate change. It's anti-science, anti-sex. It seems like they've said, OK, we're in power now, we're going to do everything we ever promised to do.
WOLFFE: Everything. Everything! And by the way, this is day two of the Obama presidential campaign. This is the debate we're going to have for the next 18 months.
MATTHEWS: (INAUDIBLE) love this.
WOLFFE: It's 18 months we're going to be debating everything. And as
he said in the briefing room, nothing is going to get done, nothing except
MATTHEWS: So he sees like a spring training picture out there, throwing in these easy ones. I mean, it seems like Boehner is basically reminding the Democrats of all the stuff they get to run against next year.
FINEMAN: Well—
MATTHEWS: That's his job.
FINEMAN: Also, I think the Republicans wanted to make sure that Paul Ryan came forth with his big long-range thing because, believe it or not, Boehner's not going to be able to deliver to the caucus everything they want by the—in terms of the cuts right now. So they want to talk big—
MATTHEWS: By the way—
FINEMAN: -- about what happens down the line as a way to cool down the Tea Party. But in the process of doing that, they lay out the whole thing.
MATTHEWS: I can actually beat you, actually, Newshounds with some news here. For the first time in my life, I know something before Howard Fineman.
MATTHEWS: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a great friend of this show—no thanks to us—
FINEMAN: All politics—
MATTHEWS: -- she's now chair of the—
FINEMAN: All politics, as well.
MATTHEWS: We do know—I may have created Debbie—what's her name, Bachmann—Michele Bachmann—her name is for some reason eluding me tonight. I shouldn't—I guess I'm embarrassed by the fact we created her. The missile came out of this show when she said, Let's have a McCarthy—
FINEMAN: My first reaction is that's a very good pick.
MATTHEWS: Well, she's very likable.
FINEMAN: She's very personable.
MATTHEWS: Very girl—or woman next door—
FINEMAN: Very likable and very smart and knows every big—every big player and donor in the party.
MATTHEWS: And she wanted a big job in the congressional leadership.
WOLFFE: Right.
MATTHEWS: This is her big job, national leader of the party.
WOLFFE: Right, and it's going to get bigger because she's got a lot of money to help raise, especially maybe in Florida.
MATTHEWS: So she'll have to raise a lot in south Florida. She's going to have to go to Texas and—you know, that is the route to greatness in the Democratic Party, by the way. You know who's a great fund-raiser?
WOLFFE: No. Go tell me.
MATTHEWS: Nancy Pelosi.
FINEMAN: But also, her personal—
MATTHEWS: You know who before that? Tip O'Neill.
FINEMAN: Also, her story—personal story is a compelling one.
She's battled against illness and overcome.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: And she's also a substantive persons. I think she's a serious legislator.
MATTHEWS: I think (INAUDIBLE) Fantastic guest on HARDBALL. Not to let that—
MATTHEWS: I hope she remembers the little saloon in Jersey where she started—you know, when she's out there playing the big room in Vegas and these places, and she's going to come back here—are you watching, Debbie, Congresswoman? We still want you back here. Remember the tavern up in Jersey somewhere?
Thank you, Howard Fineman—Sinatra (ph). Thank you, Richard Wolffe.
Big night tonight, big news night.
Coming up: Republican congressman Paul Ryan, the aforementioned, would like you to believe that his budget plan will fix every problem! This is Mother Fletcher here. Remember that? It's got everything for this guy, debt—it's going to get rid of debt, unemployment, it's going to save Medicare. But his plan is really the same old Republican plan that goes back to the days of early Reagan, get rid of the safety net, kill Medicare. It's got that skull and bones on the bottle of his medicine. Let's go back to Paul Ryan's plan. The president is going to let it simmer for a few months. We're not. We're going right after it.
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MATTHEWS: Well, the Democrats got their man in Virginia. Former governor Tim Kaine announced today he's going to run for the Senate seat of the retiring Jim Webb. He's going for it. Kaine, who has been head of the Democratic National Committee all these months now, was the party's top pick to take on former senator George Allen. Boy, that's going to be a good race. Kaine versus Allen will be the most watched Senate race in the country.
HARDBALL back after this.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Republicans think they have found the answer to our budget problems. It's pretty simple, actually. Get rid of Medicare and make states pay for Medicaid. Here's Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, today on "MORNING JOE" listing off all the things his plan will do. Let's listen to this.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: This is a plan that pays off our national debt. This is a plan that creates millions of new jobs. This is a plan that saves Medicare and Medicaid. We're patching the safety net. We're getting people on to lives of self-sufficiency. If you do it now, nobody 55 and above sees a change. We are taking great ideas from both political parties. We take $78 billion out of Pentagon spending and apply it to deficit reduction. We believe we should not be doing a big tax increase. We're doing revenue-neutral tax reform. The Heritage Foundation ran a good model on our plan, and it shows we have another $1.5 trillion of economic growth. Nearly a million new jobs created next year alone brings unemployment down to 4 percent by 2015. A thousand dollars per year on average in extra family income as a result of this plan. So what we're trying to do in this budget is set the table to get all parties to come together to fix and save Social Security.
MATTHEWS: God, he must have talked for the whole three hours of "MORNING JOE." Joining me now is Democratic congressman—congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and "New York" magazine's John Heilemann. Heilemann, I think you were doing a Rodney Dangerfield with your neck there, like, trying to get your collar loose listening to that diatribe!
MATTHEWS: Congresswoman, I just think there's a question here, and I wonder why the president is not being so—not being tough enough. And I usually don't say this. Basically, what Ryan is doing is what Ronald Reagan wanted to do way back in the early '60s when Kennedy was talking about health care for older people, retired people, kill Medicare.
REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY (D), ILLINOIS: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Kill the government program that pays for health care.
People love Medicare. Why are the Republicans attacking it?
SCHAKOWSKY: Well, actually, I think they're going to have a big political problem because, in fact, they are abolishing Medicare with this plan. And I really think it would be a very hard sell because, as you say, the American people overwhelmingly love their Medicare.
And you're right, Ronald Reagan campaigned against—he was a lobbyist against Medicare. But now doctors are reliant on Medicare, and certainly seniors. Why is he picking on old people at the same time as he's not doing anything about tax cuts for the wealthiest, tax breaks for oil companies, and companies that are outsourcing our jobs?
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's take a look—I'm not sure Reagan was—I don't think he was a paid lobbyist, but he was certainly very much an activist in killing the thought even of Medicare under Kennedy. Here he is. Let's listen to him, Congressman. And John, I want your reaction to this, too.
RONALD REAGAN, 1961: One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it.
MATTHEWS: Well, we got a poll out that shows—an NBC/"Wall street Journal" poll, by the way, that says cutting Medicare—look at it—to cut Medicare to deal with the budget crisis is a downer, 3 to 1.
John Heilemann, I just don't get this game they're playing. Why are they thinking they can get away with killing Medicare, which is so popular with people, and not pay the price for it in the next election?
JOHN HEILEMANN, "NEW YORK": Well, Chris, first of all, let's acknowledge that there is a big difference between cutting Medicare and killing Medicare. And I think you're accurately describing Paul Ryan's plan, which is that in the long run, he's trying to phase Medicare out and change it from what it is now, which is a defined benefit program, and turning it into a defined contribution program. It would not be the Medicare as we know it and as a lot of people love it in the future. That is correct.
On the other hand, you know, he can honestly and legitimately argue, as a lot of deficit hawks do, that the main problem that we face looking down the road 10, 20, 30 years is with the growth of health care spending, and that is the thing. Not Social Security. Not any of these other things.
MATTHEWS: I know, but—
MATTHEWS: This is the main problem that budgetarily we face in the long run. So getting to—taking that—getting your hands around the horns of that dilemma—
MATTHEWS: -- is a real thing that you have to deal with if you want to be serious—
MATTHEWS: -- about fiscal sanity in the country.
MATTHEWS: I'm with you. I'm with you on the macroeconomics. Let's go back to the microeconomics, the realities of this. Congresswoman, older people get sick. I've noticed the older I get, the more I need a doctor. It's a fact. It isn't a good bet to go into business, if you're an insurance company, and assume that people aren't going to have health needs as they go into their 70s, their 80s, if they're lucky enough to make their 90s. They're going to have health problems that are going to cost a lot of money, especially near the end.
That's why the government has Medicare because it's not a good bet for business to insure people in their 70s and 80s they're not going to get sick. I'm laughing at the absurdity of this!
Now, here along comes a Republican guy—
MATTHEWS: -- a young guy like Paul Ryan, who is healthy as hell, and he says, oh, great, we will give you a little voucher to help you buy medical insurance when you're 83 years old.
Give me a break. Who is going to sell you the policy? I'm sorry.
You're the expert.
SCHAKOWSKY: Give me—yes, give me a break is right.
And the median income for people over 65 years old in our country, you know what it is, Chris? It's $19,000 a year. That is with everything. Those are the people. And frail elderly, you're going to send out in the market to choose among all the health insurance companies, and then some measly amount of money is going to be sent to them, and if they don't have enough coverage, then too bad for them?
And the thing that really frosts me is that what Paul Ryan says is that this is a moral issue. I agree with him that it's a moral issue. Do nothing about the wealthiest, and take it out on the backs of people who make a median income of $19,000 a year? It's unconscionable. And it's silly. And I don't think it's going to have the political support that he wants.
MATTHEWS: Well, how do they get away with it politically? You know, Congresswoman, that, as much as it may be in the rhetoric of the Democratic Party, most Republicans are not rich.
The rich may benefit—John, you take this on. Most Republicans are average income, some above average, but the very rich may benefit the most from their programs, but most of their voters are not rich, and they need Medicare.
My father was a big Republican. He loved Medicare. He loved it. Everybody loves it who is on it. So, the government pays for your health care. How can you be against that if you're getting it?
My thought to you, John, is how does Paul Ryan save 20 or 30 or 50 House seats they could probably lose on this, when the Democrats just put the simple fact out there, this person was in Congress three or four months, and they killed Medicare?
HEILEMANN: Well, Chris, look, first of all, I think the exact question you're asking is the question that a lot of Republicans are sitting around looking at what Paul Ryan is doing and they're scared about the political implications of this.
But the very fact that, as the congresswoman said, this is not going to have the political support to pass. This is not a bill, a proposal that is going to get through, both because of the Senate, and I think actually in a lot of cases because of Republicans in the House. This is never going to become law.
What Paul Ryan is doing here is setting out a marker, and he's setting
out a very extreme marker, hoping that, and planning that, I think, that
you are going to end up someplace 50 -- half the way there. And if you set
and the ultimate compromise that has to come out is going to come 50 percent of the way towards him, right?
MATTHEWS: Yes, yes, yes, yes, but you're missing a step here.
They have got to pass the first budget resolution, Congresswoman. Every Republican will be asked to vote for that first budget resolution, and he's the chairman of the committee that writes the chairman's mark. How do they avoid that up-or-down vote, Congresswoman? I'm talking politics now.
Don't the Republican members of your Congress, of the House, have to vote for the Ryan plan to kill Medicare? Don't they have to do it in the first budget resolution?
SCHAKOWSKY: Well, as you can see now, it's a party in disarray, as we move toward the 2011 budget.
So I think, before Paul Ryan is going to absolutely—actually going to be able to put this on the floor, there's going to be a lot of debate in the caucus. And it's going to be even closer to the 2012 election.
Let me say one other thing. The Ryan plan doesn't save money in Medicare. It just shifts costs in Medicare to the old people.
MATTHEWS: Of course.
SCHAKOWSKY: What we did in the Affordable Care Act, we actually reduced the cost by not cutting—and not cutting benefits for the elderly.
MATTHEWS: Don't we need a little more original thinking here about the rising cost of health care than simply cutting it? Isn't there a problem of how we finance health care in this country we have got to come up with?
I don't know what it is, but, I mean, doctors are not getting rich, I have noticed. The friends who are mine who are doctors, the doctors that treat me are certainly not in the same position a doctor was 10 or 15, 20 years ago. They're just not. It's not a get-rich-quick plan to be a doctor anymore.
MATTHEWS: Your thoughts, Congresswoman.
SCHAKOWSKY: But isn't it ironic—isn't it ironic that the Republicans like Paul Ryan were criticizing the Democrats all last year, before the election, that Democrats cut Medicare by half a trillion dollars. Well, of course, we didn't cut any benefits, but we did reduce the costs by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating the overpayments that we made to private insurance companies.
MATTHEWS: Right.
SCHAKOWSKY: Now they have turned around and they said, well, we're going to be the ones that are going to eliminate Medicare.
MATTHEWS: You just said the worst words I have ever heard you ever speak, Congresswoman. Did you say waste, fraud and abuse?
MATTHEWS: That is the biggest line of malarkey that every conservative since Ronald Reagan has said. I'm going get rid of government spending by getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse. You're saying that actually happens?
SCHAKOWSKY: Well, actually, Secretary Sebelius has created a new—I think everybody who has been in a hospital knows that they look at their bill that there are things that are on there that shouldn't be. But Medicare pays for it.
MATTHEWS: All right.
SCHAKOWSKY: I think there actually are billions of dollars in Medicare and actually in Medicaid. It's mostly provider waste fraud and abuse. Yes, there is.
MATTHEWS: Well, I just think every time a check gets written to pay for Medicare, it goes to a doctor or a nurse or somebody who works at a hospital. And, by the way, I think they're good people.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.
SCHAKOWSKY: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: And, John Heilemann, keep up that Rodney Dangerfield thing.
I love it. It speaks millions when you do it.
MATTHEWS: There you go. There you go. I love it. When you express, what's the right word, disdain, I love it. It's a great way to do it.
HEILEMANN: No.
MATTHEWS: Yes, sir.
HEILEMANN: I don't disdain anyone, Chris, no one.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you, just thoughts of—impure thoughts.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, up next: Newt—speaking of which, Newt Gingrich does it again. Now he's trying to criminalize President Obama's reelection. He's calling the guy Al Capone, Chicago gangster. It's not enough to call him a Mau Mau guy from Kenya. Now he's calling him a gangster.
Newt Gingrich will say anything to get some attention. The "Sideshow," where it belongs, where he belongs.
You're back in a minute.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL, and, of course, to the "Sideshow."
First up: the evil eye of Newt. Beware of this guy.
Last year, he accused the president of the United States of thinking like an anti-colonial Kenyan. Well, now he's accusing our president of being a Chicago racketeer, a modern-day Al Capone, if you will.
Let's listen to Newt.
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Here's the president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale we have never seen before.
And he's in effect trying to create a Chicago-style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars. And it's not about us. It's about money and it's about the president's ability to coerce and run over the American people by building a machine so big, nobody can challenge him.
MATTHEWS: I love that, machine, Chicago-style.
Anyway, the evil eye of Newt. He was drummed out of the speakership, by the way, personally for atrocious ethics. He was drummed out of his own party really back in the '90s. He played ringmaster, let's us never forget, to the Clinton impeachment process, while he—while he personally had something of a hypocritical aspect going in his own life. He's also smart, I have to admit, and knows that the yahoos may buy some of his latest number.
Anyway, next, E!'s "True Hollywood Story" has a new star subject. It's not a movie actor, athlete or musician. It's 2012 provocateur Sarah Palin. Why not? The ex-governor reportedly did not air participate in E!'s production, which is to set to air on the 24th of this month.
Speaking of Palin, Tina Fey is hitting back. In 2009, Palin said that Tina Fey exploited and profited from Palin's candidacy through the comedian's obviously popular "S&L" impression of her. Well, Fey responded in her new book "Bossypants"—quote—"Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show. Well, I'm proud to say, you were wrong. My TV show still enjoys very low ratings. In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show. Let's face it. Between Alec Baldwin and me, there is a certain 50 percent of the population who think we are commie monsters."
Well, actually, they are two of my favorite people on television.
Tina and Alec, I think they're great.
Now for tonight's "Number."
Yesterday, the NBC News political unit debuted its map of the 2012 presidential race, coming up with 10 states, look at them out there, that could be tossups, those 10 states. You see them in yellow. The Web site 270towin, by the way, plugged in those tossups and came up with 50 scenarios, electoral vote combinations, in which a Republican would win.
Sounds like a lot, right? Well, consider this. In how many scenarios would President Obama win? Seventy, even more options for him, a much bigger number. The president has 70 scenarios to pull off the race, tonight's very "Big Number."
By the way, in 13 of those possible combinations of electoral votes, it's a tied presidential election, 269 apiece. Now, that would be scary.
Up next: another big sign Michele Bachmann is serious—and I think she is dead serious—about running for president. She has hired Mike Huckabee's top strategist in Iowa, a state he won thanks to this guy. She has now got him as her top kick. Look out. She's serious. Bachmann could win Iowa and she could go all the way. Who knows, who knows with this crowd running.
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MATTHEWS: Well, an amazing topic for this show.
We created her here, Michele Bachmann. She has been dipping her toes into the presidential waters out there, her latest move, a big signal. She is increasingly likely to run, I think, for president. Bachmann has hired the top political operative out there who ran Mike Huckabee's winning Iowa caucus campaign the last time around.
His name is Wes Enos. He sounds like a AAA pitcher somewhere.
MATTHEWS: Wes Enos, a southpaw out of Indiana.
So, is the Tea Party leader ready to take on the likes of Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty?
MSNBC's Jonathan Alter writes for "Newsweek," and Susan Milligan writes for "U.S. News."
I want to start with Susan. What the heck.
MATTHEWS: Michele Bachmann, female candidate, may run with all boring guys, if Sarah Palin doesn't get in. They say in Massachusetts, as you know, as you know, the shape of the field determines the winner.
One exciting, hard-right, attractive candidate against four boring guys, I think she has got a good shot to win that Iowa caucus, just bet, just because she's the one really interesting entry right now.
SUSAN MILLIGAN, "U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT": Well, I definitely think
she has a good shot of winning the Iowa caucus. I don't think she will go
MATTHEWS: Isn't that a lot?
MILLIGAN: It is, except that, you know, Iowa is unusual, as you know. Iowa and New Hampshire, they will give anybody a shot. They don't like the party telling them who the nominee is going to be.
And she's got Iowa roots. They don't go back quite as far as she has been saying on the campaign trail, but she has Iowa roots. And there's a certain part of the party, though, she can get excited. But she's—
MILLIGAN: -- credibility.
MATTHEWS: What about her personal story? Forget the ideology for a minute. She's had a big family, five kids she has raised. She's got something like 15 foster kids she's taken in.
JONATHAN ALTER, NBC NEWS CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENT: Twenty.
MILLIGAN: Twenty. Twenty.
ALTER: Twenty-two.
MATTHEWS: That's more kids than Newt has got wives, right?
ALTER: Yes. Yes. No, I think that will play really, really, really well in Iowa. You know, you and I were out there in 1988.
MATTHEWS: The meat locker, the coldest place in America in January.
ALTER: But the—remember, '88, Bob Dole was from neighboring Kansas. So he won. And the fight was over second. It was between the sitting vice president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and Pat Robertson, a televangelist.
MATTHEWS: I know.
ALTER: And Robertson crushed Bush. And I remember being at election headquarters, Robertson's election headquarters that night, and saying if Pat Robertson can do that well in the Republican Iowa caucuses, anyone can.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but I—
ALTER: She—
MATTHEWS: But the Republican Party today—
ALTER: She's the favorite in the caucuses.
MATTHEWS: Jon, you know as much as I do about politics, both of you. But you know the Republican Party is a lot more like Pat Robertson today than it is like Bob Dole.
ALTER: Yes. Yes.
MATTHEWS: A lot more like it.
ALTER: She is the favorite to win those caucuses. Now, don't mistake me. She is not going to win the nomination.
MATTHEWS: Don't be --
ALTER: Because she will burn out. She will burn out.
MATTHEWS: Bachmann has said a lot of things that I think are provably inaccurate, like Lexington and Concord is in New Hampshire—
ALTER: Nobody cares.
MATTHEWS: -- and the founding fathers were against slavery.
But the people in the yahoo wing of the Republican Party, who are so anti-intellectual, so against people that know anything, that they're going to like the fact she is sort of basic in that department, that she is learning things.
MILLIGAN: Yes, on the other hand, I'm not—learning geography at this point, it is kind of like some of the freshmen in the House sort of still learning how a bill becomes a law. I'm not sure how that's going to work for her in a presidential campaign.
But the thing is, look at what Sarah Palin did. They learned their lesson from the impact Palin had on the independent vote in the general election. And I just don't see the party trying to come around her.
MATTHEWS: Let me try the map here. We have been looking at the map already. Let's take a look at this. Suppose—look at the money she has raised. She has outraised Mitt Romney in the first quarter, tons of money to put TV ads telling her personal story. Isn't that going to sell?
MILLIGAN: Look, money is important. But one of the reason she's raised a lot of the money is that she—as you pointed out, she taps a certain part of the party.
Alan Grayson raised a lot of money, almost $6 million. Joe Wilson raised a lot of money.
MATTHEWS: Who would you rather interview—would you rather interview for an hour, a reasonable interview over a couple of coffee, taking notes, no cameras, her or Mitt Romney?
MILLIGAN: Oh, that's unfair.
MATTHEWS: Well, I'm going to ask you, because Romney would be robotic.
MILLIGAN: He would. He would.
ALTER: No, no, I'm going to say Romney.
MILLIGAN: But who would you rather have as president?
ALTER: But, no, not just that.
ALTER: Like, I just came from the memorial service for David Broder.
MATTHEWS: Right, great, great, greatest reporter.
ALTER: One of the points that one of the eulogists made is, he didn't believe in trivializing politics.
This is not a game. And Romney is a smart guy.
ALTER: She has no business being in this. She is out of the clown car.
MATTHEWS: She's taping this right now.
MATTHEWS: Jonathan Alter, she is loving—some big shot Ivy Leaguer, he's on "Newsweek," has just declared I am not eligible to run for president.
ALTER: No, I didn't say that. I said she's going to win the Iowa caucus and then she's going to lose in New Hampshire.
MATTHEWS: You called her trivial.
ALTER: But here's the thing that is, I think, most significant about her. What does she do to Tim Pawlenty who's also from Minnesota? Does she come off state?
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think you're right. There's a Gresham's Law here, the bad—the cheap money drives the good money out of circulation, right?
ALTER: It could be a real problem.
MATTHEWS: So, in other word, a guy who could actually beat President Obama could lose in the first couple rounds.
ALTER: Possible.
MATTHEWS: You think that's true?
MILLIGAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: That she could have that role here.
MILLIGAN: She could have that role. I don't see her getting far beyond Iowa. Obviously, she wins the Iowa caucus. It's going to give her a boost. I just can't see her playing out—
MATTHEWS: Look, this isn't table stakes. Who has the money?
If you look at the LDS money, the Mormon money, and I do not knock this for a second, that Mitt Romney can draw with that tremendous fraternity, sorority, people that trust him because of a common background, and his business background, and the fact that he can take a couple defeats. I think that's the Romney strength. He can take some early knockdowns.
She gets knocked out, she's out of the game.
MILLIGAN: Right.
MATTHEWS: Pawlenty gets knocked out, he's knocked out of the game.
Romney can take a couple of loses, hang in there like McCain or like most presidential nominees, they end up winning the marathon.
ALTER: Unless he's got Huntsman. Because remember on a stage, Jon Huntsman can say, well, he worked as Obama's ambassador—
MATTHEWS: Is Huntsman a Mormon?
ALTER: His father --
MATTHEWS: A practicing Mormon?
ALTER: He himself is not. But he's got so much money.
MATTHEWS: -- in that community and others.
ALTER: -- in that clam shell that the Big Mac goes in, his family, they're billionaires. So, he has plenty of money.
MATTHEWS: OK, let's take a look.
ALTER: He's the most appealing if any --
MATTHEWS: To go back to your point.
ALTER: He's the guy you like the best on that state, Jon Huntsman.
MILLIGAN: You've got to remember that in the Republican primary, unlike the Democratic primary, some of those states are winner-take-all and that's going to be a problem for some of—
MATTHEWS: They're trying to stop that. The Republicans don't want an early win.
Let's take a look at what she said in New Hampshire, because it is one of the early states. Here's what Congresswoman Bachmann said about our history and how the republic was formed.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You're the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord.
MATTHEWS: Well, maybe she'll straighten that out on the "DAILY RUNDOWN." She's been booked tomorrow morning at 9:00 on MSNBC. Maybe she can explain her unique knowledge of American history, the early presidents were all against you. The Founding Fathers tried to fight slavery.
Thank you, Jonathan Alter. About 20 of the presidents had slaves.
Anyway, thank you. Thank you, Susan Milligan.
Up next: Academy Award-winning, we got a big winner tonight, Kevin Spacey, our friend, is coming on to talk about why Republicans across the country, especially on Capitol Hill, seem to always want to kill funding for the arts. What is this?
Well, this is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Well, voters in Wisconsin are going to the polls today. They're voting out there today for two races that are essentially referenda on union-busting Governor Scott Walker. That's going to be a big headline tomorrow across the country. The first race is to replace Walker as Milwaukee county executive. And the second is for state Supreme Court justice. Whoa!
Democrats are trying to tie the Republicans in both cases to Walker. And if they win tonight, it could be a sign of Walker's politics are toxic out there. And even bigger, the Democrats have the momentum in a state that will be a critical battleground for next year. President Obama needs to win Wisconsin.
We'll have the results tomorrow.
HARDBALL back after this.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
As House Republicans push for deep spending cuts in the budget, one of the easiest targets of all for them is the arts. A group of right-wing Republicans wants to cut federal funding for the arts entirely.
Now, it means pulling $167 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and, of course, $450 million from PBS. And that would translate into no funding for such programs as "American Masters" on PBS, the Sundance Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey is pushing back against those efforts and he's with us tonight.
Kevin, you were so spectacular last night at the Kennedy Center. I wish I had you as a professor 40-some minutes of splendid explanation of why the arts are so important in our country, no matter what the budget problems are. I now give you the floor, sir, because I think we haven't argued this yet. Why are the Republicans trying to kill the arts?
KEVIN SPACEY, ACTOR/POLITICAL ACTIVIST: Well, you know, it's hard to understand why anyone would want to try to win political points over this issue. I think that as Americans, we have every right, and I believe that every member of Congress in the Senate should be just as patriotic about our arts as they are about so many other issues that they're enormously patriotic about.
I think that arts and culture are a necessity in our lives, not just as individuals but as nations. I think that it's about our spirit and our health. It's about how much we expose young people to arts education, to music, and to poetry, and to theater, and to ballet.
And this isn't about people who want to go into the arts. This is about what it does to people's sense of confidence, to people's sense of self esteem, to what they can learn about themselves.
I mean, you go back through the—the huge swath of extraordinary leadership we've had on this issue, really from Lincoln, you know. I think I mentioned last night that a lot of people, of course, know about the tragic death of President Lincoln at a theater. But we know little how much he actually attended the theater during his presidency. And the worst days of the Civil War, he attended the theater constantly because Lincoln understood that he needed the arts to replenish his soul. He craved for poetry.
You look at some of his extraordinary presidential speeches, and you hear the rhythms of Shakespeare and the Bible, which he memorized as a young child who was not—he couldn't see performance. He was exactly the kind of kid that arts programs in this country would have wanted to reach.
And so, I tried last night to—in the Nancy Hanks lecture, to make an argument about embracing arts and culture. It, in my opinion, is the most important export that we exchange around the world. Countries may go to war, but it's culture that unites us. It educates us. It teaches us to be better.
So, the idea that somehow this, quite frankly, small amount of $167 million, which while that isn't a huge amount of money, what people have to understand is that there is then matching state funding and other kinds of money that comes in. And it actually escalates to about $1 billion, maybe even a little bit over a billion in terms of the amount of funding for arts that goes out across the country.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SPACEY: And then, the return on that investment—and this is something that I think a lot of people in the country aren't aware of—is $29 billion come back into the coffers of the state and local governments. So, it is a huge return on that kind of investment.
MATTHEWS: You know, I know this because I look at the really successful big-city mayors who have made their cities proud to be cities, like Philadelphia's Eddie Rendell, who created the Avenue of the Arts on South Broad Street. And even Buddy Cianci, not the cleanest customer on this, rebuilt Providence out of nowhere. He created a downtown. It's so good economics.
I don't understand why Republicans who love boosterism, who love business and downtowns everywhere don't see what you see.
SPACEY: Well, what I see in every place where there is a cultural center, it brings economy to all the surrounding businesses. I mean, if you go to any place in this country where there's a ballet company or a theater or jazz club or, you know, a comedy store, any place people gather, it brings economy to all the surrounding businesses. The restaurants are filled.
And, by the way, the airlines are filled because as many people probably don't know, the single largest money making tourist attraction in the United States is Broadway.
So, our culture is what brings people to the United States. They want to share it. They want to experience it. And we send it all over the world. I mean, that's the wonderful thing about culture is that it doesn't know borders. It doesn't understand when it crossed a border and had an impact on someone in another state or in another country around the world.
MATTHEWS: Do you think the Republicans, at least the right-wingers who are pushing this, know what would Boston be like without the symphony? What would Philadelphia be without the Philly, the Philadelphia Orchestra, what would a downtown be without its museums and its performing arts? It wouldn't be cities anymore. We don't have cities for downtown shopping anymore.
The cities exist in America today mainly not because to go shop there anymore, like we used to do Wednesday afternoon, or—you know what I mean? The reason you have New York now is because the culture, because of Broadway. The reason Philly has a downtown or even one survives in Detroit has a downtown is because of the culture.
SPACEY: Look, I don't think we could accuse any member of Congress, no matter what side of the aisle they are on, of not being lovers of music and poetry and beauty and grace and what the arts give to our country.
This is a fundamental issue of ideology. And it's an issue about whether they believe that the government should have a role in supporting arts and culture. And I say look back at the history of mankind. Look at the fact that on the continent of Europe, they have been supporting arts for a very, very long time.
I mean, princes commissioned Mozart and Michelangelo, Joseph I built the first great opera house in Vienna. Germany nurtured music and theaters. Look how much money they spend in Italy.
And even the cuts that we have experienced in Great Britain. Great Britain adopted the idea that the arts, like health care and education and social security, are universal goods that ought to be available regardless of people's ability to pay.
MATTHEWS: Tell that story about Winston Churchill you told last night, my hero.
SPACEY: Well, this was great quote because as I was preparing for this lecture, I wanted to find a lot of comments that various world leaders and political leaders in the United States had made about the importance of the arts. And, apparently, when Winston Churchill was prime minister and he was told that there was going to have to be major cuts in arts and culture because of the mounting costs of World War II, he responded with a simple reply, "Then are we fighting for?"
MATTHEWS: Well, let's let that thought settle in.
Kevin Spacey, you're magnificent as an actor. You are unbelievable last night at the Kennedy Center.
SPACEY: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: I wish we all had had professor like you.
SPACEY: I was so glad that you came. It meant a lot to me and thanks for having me on today on this issue.
MATTHEWS: It's always great to have you on. Kevin Spacey, one of our greats.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with why I'm not beating on Paul Ryan and Republicans this week.
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MATTHEWS: Well, "Let Me Finish" tonight with a big fight that's going on here in Washington. By the way, you are the ones that started it—after all, you're the voter.
You know why we have a divided government? Because you elected one.
The Democrats, of course, believe in government. The rule it can play in providing a safety net for people, especially for health challenges, especially for older people who often have them.
Republicans tell us less is better in this department. It's better for the government to get out of the health care business, including health care for older people. That's what the Republicans are saying right now.
But there's a hitch, of course, in that thinking. I'm not telling you anything you don't know already, older people have health problems. Health problems are what you deal with late in life. That's what we used to call "a fact of life." You get heart problems, diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancers.
Nobody wants this stuff, but it happens, and we do our best to deal with it. And thanks to some great doctors and nurses and hospitals and good equipment, we do a pretty good job.
That's what we do. And yes, it costs money. Nobody's getting rich in this country betting that old people won't get sick.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we get into this conversation. It's why we have a safety net in this country, why we have Medicare and, yes, Medicaid, especially for long-term care, because the insurance companies don't like betting on this.
And every once in a while, someone comes along—maybe it's a gang that comes along—and forgets these facts of life and thinks we can short-change or even abolish programs like Medicare.
We'll see. I know retired people like Medicare—and guess what? They think they deserve it, after spending 40 or 50 years busting hump to keep things going this country.
So, I'm not betting on anybody or any party that thinks they can win by busting up Medicare, and doing the same thing to the health care bill the president just spent a huge amount of his political capital bringing from promise to reality.
People get old. They get sick. They believe in this country, and they don't want politicians out there—men and women who already have good health insurance from the government, by the way, the Congress people do—killing their health insurance.
So, I'm not telling you something you don't already know.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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Face-to-face bargaining took place at the BCGEU Victoria office on three days in January.
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Welcome to Moondragon Manor online
"This could be fun if it was done right."
This website is primarily concerned with rapier fighting in the Society for Creative Anachronism. If you've just wandered in to get out of the rain, and are totally confused, you can find some basic information about the SCA here and some introductory information about rapier fighting here and here.
For everybody else, think of this as a concentrated version of sitting around my living room and talking about rapier combat and the SCA. Herein you will find various articles:
A History of Rapier Combat in the SCA
Constitution of the Order of the White Scarf
A Brief History of the White Scarf
What is a Don? compiled by Don Robin of Gilwell
Rapier Combat and the Society for Creative Anachronism
Junior Scientists and Experimental Archaeologists
The Moondragon Manual of Rapier Combat
To Make a Scabbard for an SCA Rapier
To make a Square Target In the Style of Marozzo or DiGrassi
Known World Academy of the Rapier: This is an SCA-wide teaching event, primarily for rapier fighting, but it may also include classes on other combat techniques, such as German Longsword. This year's KWAR was scheduled to be in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on April 17-20, 2020, but was cancelled due to the Covid-19 problems. https://sites.google.com/view/kwrac/
Here's a [chronology] of all the KWARs.
Fellow Travellers Being a collection of links to other SCA or rapier-related websites.
The Rules by Tivar Moondragon


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Manchester United caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes his side are facing Paris St Germain at the perfect time as their outstanding run of form continues.
When the draw for this match was made in December, few gave Jose Mourinho's United much chance of advancing beyond the Champions League's Round of 16.
But United have been transformed since Solskjaer replaced the Portuguese, winning 10 and drawing one of his 11 games in charge.
"We've given ourselves the best possible opportunity because of the way we've come into this game," Solskjaer said.
"We're confident and we're looking like a team. If there was ever a time to go into big games, it's now."
United's surge under Solskjaer has seen them force their way into the Premier League's top four, but their upturn in form is yet to impress the European oddsmakers and they remain unfancied in the Champions League.
That does not concern Solskjaer, however.
"I think the squad is very capable of winning against any opponent," he said.
"When we go into games confident as we are now, in form, we are looking forward to the game.
"We can't look too far ahead, we've got to look at PSG now and make sure we go through and take the next challenge as it comes.
"But I've been very pleased with the attitude. I've said to the boys, we have to keep working every single day.
When we work hard, we work hard. When we have lighter training, we concentrate. Then we can improve and maybe surprise people."
United are second favourites against PSG, who have come a long way as a club from the side Solskjaer played against for Molde in the Cup Winners' Cup back in 1995.
"It has been fantastic to see their progress," he said. "They've got some of the world's best players. They've got a goalkeeping legend in Gianluigi Buffon, Thiago Silva is one of the best centre-backs in the world and they've got one of the most exciting young players in (Kylian) Mbappe, Neymar as well.
"That tells you everything about their evolution. We know we will play against a team with confidence because they are used to winning."
Not all of PSG's considerable attacking talent will be on the pitch on Tuesday however, with Edinson Cavani joining Neymar in the treatment room, while right-back Thomas Meunier is also ruled out.
"Of course any team that is missing players like Neymar, Cavani and Meunier will feel the affect," Solskjaer said.
"But it gives other players a chance and maybe they are more unpredictable for us with who they are going to play.
"When you've seen that front three for the whole season you know what to expect but this time around we're guessing a little bit."
In contrast, United got an injury boost with Victor Lindelof able to train on Monday, with Antonio Valencia and Matteo Darmian the only absentees with minor knocks.
The club also announced that Ashley Young has signed a new one-year contract, having entered the final months of his previous deal.
The PSG game starts a huge couple of weeks for United, who face Chelsea in the FA Cup before Premier League title challengers Liverpool visit Old Trafford on February 24.
Asked if this was a fortnight which could define his hopes of landing the United job full-time, Solskjaer said that was too simplistic.
"You need to change the script," he said. "You have so many ways of asking that question. That's too simple.
"There are still a few more months left of this season for me to do whatever I can for the club."
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"Read, read, read and read some more! Make it part of your daily routine." - Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten! by Stacey Kannenberg and Linda Desimowich
After my daughter was born, I received a baby care guide from the hospital. Baby milestones were covered, as well as helpful tips. But my baby didn't stay baby size very long. What about my preschooler? What core skills should she possess right now? The Let's Get Ready Series by Stacey Kannenberg and Linda Desimowich provides a great starting point for teaching your children the early childhood skills they need to learn. The award-winning series currently consists of two books: Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten! and Let's Get Ready for First Grade! Every parent with a young child should own a set of these extremely helpful books.
Before children start school they undergo a basic skills assessment. Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten! covers all of these important skills. The softcover book is engaging, colorful and a lot of fun for both child and parent. It features wipe-off pages for use with dry erase markers. A pretend teacher named Mrs. Good and the culturally diverse Cedar Valley kids lead the learning discussions in the book. The backcover offers parent and caregiver tips as well as an alphabet writing directional chart. A different skill is featured on each page. Examples of the different topics featured are as follows:
The Alphabet and Mixed-up Alphabet • Letter Sounds • Colors • Shapes • Left and Right Hands • Numbers and Mixed-up Numbers • Counting • Money and Coins • Opposites • Seasons • Rhyming • Positional Words • Body Parts • The Five Senses • Time • Calendars • Telephone Numbers • Writing PracticeMy daughter managed the first few pages without much difficulty. She was understandably a little unnerved by seeing the alphabet in a mixed up order and wanted to know why it was shown that way. She also at first did not recognize the color "gray" or the shapes "hexagon" and "octagon". The skills in the last part of the book are more advanced (like learning and dialing your phone number). We will need to practice them.
A Spanish/English edition of Let's Get Ready For Kindergarten! is scheduled to be released this year.
Let's Get Ready for First Grade! continues with more advanced skills such as vowels, consonants, and punctuation. It is laid out in exactly the same format as the kindergarten book, but the teacher this time is named Ms. Best.
Cedar Valley Publishing is a Wisconsin-based company. Stacey Kannenberg, the co-author and publisher, is a mother to two daughters and is also a Principal and Consultant for Mom Central Consulting and the VP of Mother Talk. I am thrilled to report that 10% of all profits from the Let's Get Ready series book sales are donated to literacy foundations and schools.
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We're not sure whether to do a celebratory "Silly Walk" or break into the "Chicken Dance."
Comedy fans had good reason to trot out both classic bits in recent days amid reports that the surviving members of Monty Python are planning a movie reunion of sorts and that the whole "Arrested Development" cast will participate in the upcoming new season of shows and the big-screen Bluth Family epic.
Still, our hopes for getting new laughs out of old favorites are tempered by concerns that the cult comedy comebacks might fall flatter than a frozen banana, rather than represent the Holy Grail of humor. We're taking heart, though, by other recent comedy reunions that beat the odds to prove satisfying.
The brilliant show-within-a-show "Seinfeld" reunion plotline from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in 2009 offered fans the pleasing finale that many believe eluded Jerry and the gang's exit more than a decade earlier. "The Kids in the Hall" returned in a different form in 2010, creating largely new characters for a murder mystery comedy miniseries – "The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town" – that marked a departure from their sketch-driven hey-day. Cheech and Chong didn't change much for their reunion tour, but they played a different kind of joint by appearing on "The Simpsons" last season in one of the stronger episodes in recent memory.
The Pythons, like their stoner-act veteran comedy colleagues, are letting their voices do the talking this time around. "Absolutely Anything," a partially-CG-animated science fiction comedy being directed by troupe member Terry Jones, reportedly will feature the Pythons voicing aliens. It's a promising move for the crew, whose about various musings about reunions over the years took on as much life as a certain parrot.
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted nearly 43 years ago and it's been almost three decades since "The Meaning of Life," the team's last major work together and their final appearance with the late Graham Chapman. At this point, their voices should be enough – let's face it, no one is expecting 72-year-old John Cleese to Silly Walk his way across the screen.
The reunion plans for "Arrested Development," yanked off the air by Fox six years ago next month, are far more ambitious. As announced last fall, 10 news episodes, to air on Netflix in 2013, are in the works, to be followed by a big-screen movie. Upping the expectations is the news from writer Dean Lorey this week that the full original cast will be back.
Much has changed since we last saw the Bluths, including Michael Cera's unlikely emergence as a movie star. There are no guarantees the old chemistry can be recreated, though we're encouraged by the seamless comic interplay between David Cross and Will Arnett in the dementedly hilarious "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret," which is down to its final two episodes on IFC.
Whether reuniting is a poor decision for either the "Arrested Development" or "Python" casts remains to be seen. An even worse decision would be not giving either crew a chance to make us laugh again.
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Evolve or die: workplace flexibility and the next generation
PwC's NextGen: A global generational study, which was conducted in conjunction with the University of Southern California and the London Business School, represents the most ambitious research into the Millennial generation, or 'Generation Y'. The study included responses from 44,000 employees throughout PwC's global network of professional service firms, with almost one quarter of the responses coming from Millennials.
This two-year research undertaking finds that the Millennial generation, those born between 1980 and 1995, seek more workplace flexibility, better balance between their work and home life, and opportunity for overseas assignments as keys to greater job satisfaction.
The research study both confirmed and dispelled stereotypes about Millennials. While younger workers are more tech savvy, globally focused, and willing to share information, the study found they did not feel more entitled or less committed than their older, non-Millennial counterparts, and are willing to work just as hard. The global survey also found that many of the Millennials' attitudes are consistently shared by their more senior colleagues.
The study sought to measure factors relating to workplace retention, loyalty and job satisfaction. It compared responses among Millennials to those of non-Millennials at the same stage of their careers to assess generational differences between the two sets of employees.
There are a number of key lessons at the heart of the PwC NextGen study findings.
Millennial employees want greater flexibility…and so does everyone else.
Millennials and non-Millennials alike want the option to shift their work hours to accommodate their own schedules and are interested in working outside the office where they can stay connected by way of technology. Employees across all generations also say they would be willing to forego some pay and delay promotions in exchange for reducing their hours.
Millennials put a premium on work/life balance.
Unlike past generations, who put an emphasis on their careers and worked well beyond a 40-hour work week in the hope of rising to higher-paying positions later on, Millennials are not convinced that such early career sacrifices are worth the potential rewards. A balance between their personal and work lives is more important to them.
These findings are important for business leaders who need to understand, and diversity practitioners who need to deliver, the business case for diversity. For too long flexibility and work/life balance have been associated with female talent. This NextGen research report does more than dispel stereotypes related to the Millennial generation, it also goes some way towards dispelling some gender stereotypes.
Flexibility is not just about women; for Millennials, it is a talent wide imperative. In fact, the study finds that given the opportunity, 64% of Millennials and 66% of non-Millennials would like to occasionally work from home, and 66% of Millennials and 64% of non-Millennials would like the option to occasionally shift their work hours. 15% of all male employees and 21% of all female employees say they would give up some of their pay and slow the pace of promotion in exchange for working fewer hours. What is critical here is that work/life balance is more important to a much broader subset of Millennials – Millennial women and Millennial men.
Likewise, work/life balance, while more important to the Millennial generation, is valued by non-Millenials as well; in fact, 71% of Millennials vs. 63% of non-Millennials say that their work demands significantly interfere with their personal lives.
When leadership and organisations understand that flexibility and work/life balance are not just Millennial- or women-focused challenges, but are indeed about everyone, and begin to consider them with strategies and policies targeted at the whole talent population, then we will continue to see a shift toward more truly diverse and inclusive work cultures and organisations.
So please, let's start talk about flexibility and work/life balance as a talent wide proposition! Find out more on the PwC's NextGen Study at http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/hr-management-services/publications/nextgen-study.jhtml.


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"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were Epirotes, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto ▬ Skanderbeg, October 31 1460
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Këtu mund të flisni mbi historinë tonë duke sjellë fakte historike për ndriçimin e asaj pjese të historisë mbi të cilen ka rënë harresa e kohës dhe e njerëzve.
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